Pamela Paterson is accompanying her best friend, local reporter Bettina Fraser, to a St. Patrick’s Day celebration at the Arborville rec center. The food is excellent, and the entertainment even more so—with glamorous 70-something singer Isobel Lister back in town and ready to wow the crowd. Several members of the audience seem less than eager…
It’s the most wonderful crime(s) of the year! As the holidays come ‘round again, they bring with them an abundance of Christmassy capers, from lighthearted cozies to lingering chillers. Whether you prefer something naughty or something nice, here are a few titles to consider that celebrate family, friends, fur babies . . . and felonies.…
Kensington Books’ latest seasonal collection of culinary cozy novellas is perfect for curling up with a hot beverage and taking a much-needed holiday break! Carlene O’Connor’s Ireland-set tale opens the book and gives the collection its name. Fans of her Irish Village Mystery series will be thrilled to see familiar characters here. Our heroine, Siobhan…
After a delay of three years, I finally got a chance to attend a Kensington CozyClub Mini-Con! In 2019, the pandemic put paid to Kensington Publishing’s usual slate of CozyClub mini-conventions, aimed at lovers of cozy mysteries and held regionally on a regular basis. Now that it’s 2022 however, things have gotten safe enough to…
The eighth book of the Knit & Nibble Mystery series finds our heroine, Pamela Paterson, looking forward to enjoying the fruits of her labor at nearby Wendelstaff College’s fiber arts conference. She’s successfully convinced the magazine she works for to sponsor a knitting bee to be held all weekend at Sufficiency House, a historic home…
The seventh book in the Knit & Nibble Mystery series finds the small town of Arborville, New Jersey, once more rocked by murder. Young, beautiful Jenny Miller is found strangled to death near her plot in the community garden. Most curiously, the murder weapon was a circular knitting needle, which immediately draws the attention of…
Kensington Books has been publishing seasonally themed collections of mystery novellas from their culinary cozy (and adjacent) authors since 2007, and this is probably my favorite of the ones I’ve read so far! A lot of my friends have complained of shorter attention spans since the pandemic started, and while I’ve been lucky not to…
Halloween has come to Arborville, and Pamela Paterson’s main concern is whether she’s underdressed, as usual, for the town’s annual bonfire celebrations—especially in comparison with her friends Bettina and Nell, who have gone all out with their costumes. All thought of frivolity is swiftly pushed out of their heads, however, when two teenagers stumble across…
The fourth installment of the Knit & Nibble Mystery series came out right as the pandemic took hold here stateside, and I got a little lost in all the chaos. Fortunately, I was able to catch up with my favorite introverted cozy culinary sleuth before the latest book comes out later this month! It’s another…
The second book in the Knit & Nibble Mystery series opens with Arborfest, the New Jersey town of Arborville’s annual celebration of civic pride. Our heroine, Pamela Paterson, and the knitting club she founded have set up a booth to sell knitted aardvarks, the local high school mascot, with proceeds going to help fund Arborville…
